Compression Streams

zlib: PHP 4.0.4 - PHP 4.2.3 (systems with fopencookie only)

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2:// PHP 4.3.0 and up

• zlib:

• compress.zlib://

• compress.bzip2://

zlib: works like gzopen(), except that the stream can be used with fread() and the other filesystem functions. This is deprecated as of PHP 4.3.0 due to ambiguities with filenames containing ':' characters; use compress.zlib:// instead.

compress.zlib:// and compress.bzip2:// are equivalent to gzopen() and bzopen() respectively, and operate even on systems that do not support fopencookie.

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Compression Streams

joshualross at gmail dot com
19-Aug-2007 12:24

I had a difficult time finding how to use compress.zlib with an http resource so I thought I would post what I found
<?php
$file = 'compress.zlib://http://www.example.com/myarchive.gz';
$fr = fopen($file, 'rb');
?>

Per the bugreport I found here (http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=29045)

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Data (RFC 2397) PHP input/output streams

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Last updated: Sat, 27 Jan 2007